Post #757180 by swizzle on Tue, Jan 12, 2016 7:13 PM

On 2016-01-11 11:20, mikehooker wrote:
Velvet is a mild flavored liqueur, Fees is a thick sweetened syrup, and the homemade had nice flavor but I wouldn't say it was hands down the winner. Everyone seems to swear by homemade falernum saying it's life changing and you'll never go back to store bought, but I gotta say, it didn't blow me away.

Totally agree with each thing you've said here mikehooker except unfortunately i cannot do a comparison against all three as i don't have any homemade and can only go by my experience of my first and only time i've made my own. Last year when was in the U.S. i brought some Wray $ Nephew O/P home with me and made the #8 recipe using that (although i cut the number of cloves back by about half as i hate the flavour of cloves) and can't say i was blown away by the finished product. I remember it being okay but nothing special.

I really should have another go at making some more as now i actually have some Fees and the Velvet to compare it to but sadly my options for O/P rum are not only extremely limited, but also very expensive. My only choices, that i can think of that i can get easily, are Bacardi 151 and Bundaberg, and i'm not sure i want to go down either of those roads. Inner Circle is another brand that makes an O/P but unfortunately not only was that difficult to find in the first place, the one place that i could get it now no longer stocks the brand. My only other option is a an O/P neutral grain alcohol.